Sunday, 22 February 2015

Vintage Stitching

Hello all,Well another week has passed and unfortunately I've done absolutely no crafting this week. It was my son's 18th birthday on Friday so I have been shopping and organising for that and of course tidying the house for visitors coming! Lol!However, this afternoon, enthused by this week's vintage sewing theme on The Great British Sewing Bee TV programme, I decided to take my vintage Singer out of the box and see if I could get it to work. (I purchased it a few months ago at auction).

The machine is actually in "nearly new" condition, with no rusty bits or gunky old fibres clogging the mechanics. I simply gave it a good oil and dust, threaded it up and off it trundled. I didn't even have to adjust the tension, it sews perfectly and it can go at a fair speed.

these are the reverse side/bobbin stitches

I've a busy week next week too but hopefully I'll be able to post something! I'm trying to maintain a weekly post and joining in with Handmade Monday certainly helps. It's a lovely little community of very friendly crafters but the link up is only open for a couple of days so you'll have to be quick if you want to join in.Okay that's me for today, thanks so much for visiting.Wishing you all a good week.Take careSuze xx

What a beautiful machine, and I'm so impressed you got it working so nicely. I'm loving sewing bee this year - as always - It's my most favourite program on tv at the moment, an hour of bliss every week!

That really is a beautiful machine. It makes me wonder when machines went electric. I have my mum's hand machine up in the attic, but stopped using it because the stitches went a bit wrong and I thought it would be expensive to have it put right. It is old, but not as pretty as yours.

My granny used to have a Singer which worked via a treadle and it went at such a great speed (well, until your legs got tired!). Yours is so beautiful. I have three machines already and don't think my husband would approve of me buying another just because it's pretty!

Hi Suze. I have 3 sewing machines now but have always wanted to own one of these. Will have to trawl local auctions to see if I can pick up one as good as yours. Finding somewhere to store it would be a challenge!I think that we are kindred spirits. Regards Lilian

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Nearing middle age (if you take the average life expectancy of 100!) and just doing what I like! As long as the house is reasonably tidy and the kids and hubby have been fed, I reckon it's time for "me"! A bit of card making, a bit of sewing, a lot of chocolate = happy days!.